The Mountain province had 60 percent of its saw- 
timber area in the “less than 2,000” board-feet-per- 
acre class, followed by the Piedmont with 51 percent. 
The Coastal Plain had only 32 percent in the lowest 
class (table 28). The mountains and Piedmont like- 
wise had less than 2 percent of the area in the “10,000 
and over” class, whereas the Coastal Plain had 10 
percent. This resulted in the Coastal Plain having 32 
percent of its volume in the 10,000-feet-or-more-per- 
acre class, whereas the Piedmont and mountains had 
only 8 and 6 percent, respectively. 
In the Coastal Plain no county had less than 1,000 
board feet per average forest acre in 1940, and only 
3 counties had less than 2,000 feet. One county 
(Northampton) averaged better than 6,000 feet per 
acre, and 7 others (Accomac, Isle of Wight, James 
City, Mathews, Southampton, Warwick, York) aver- 
aged 4,000-6,000 feet. The other 23 Coastal Plain 
counties averaged 2,000-4,000 feet per acre. In the 
Piedmont no county had over 2,100 feet per acre, and 
in only 2 (Loudoun and Mecklenburg) the average 
exceeded 2,000 feet. Eight counties had less than 
1,000 board feet per acre. In the Mountain province, 
no county averaged as much as 2,000 feet, while 16 
counties averaged less than 1,000 feet per acre. 
The heaviest saw-timber stands were in the loblolly 
pine type, followed by the bottom-land and hardwood 
type, and the white pine type (table 8). Lowest vol- 
umes per acre were in the upland hardwood and 
shortleaf pine types. The average saw-timber stand 
had 3,250 feet per acre. 
In North Carolina (3) saw-timber stands averaged 
4,280 feet per acre, or more than 1,000 board feet per 
acre higher than in Virginia. In South Carolina (4) 
TasLe 8.—Board-foot volume (International %4-inch rule) per average 
acre in saw-timber stands by types, 1940 
Forest type 
Species group Peeters ee eee icone UP: oe 
inia| White! jand | hard-| land 
Loblolly and shortleaf pine_|4,830] 1,890} 460 110; 420 10} 160)1,310 
Virginia pine---+---_-_-- 60 150}1,430 50 20 10 40} 200 
Other softwoods_~------- 10 30} 30} 2,610; 430) 110) 40) 130 
COR) gags ite Ree ee ee 190} 220) 380] 610) 420) 900/1,420) 790 
Gums and yellow-poplar__| 310 190} 240 110}1,980/1,120} 420) 510 
Other hardwoods__-_----- 70 40 70 290}1,050| 970} 360) 310 
All live species _-___- 5,470) 2,520/2,610| 3,780/4,320)3,120/2,440)3 ,250 
Dead chestnut_____-_----|----- 10} (@) 120\ees2= 210} 120} - 60 
1 Less than 5. 
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the average stand per acre on all forest land was 2,600 
board feet for the pine types and 3,500 feet for the 
hardwood types, contrasted with 2,100 and 1,500, re- 
spectively, in Virginia. These and preceding facts 
indicate how severely Virginia has cut into her capital 
of forest resources. The general understocking of all 
forest types in all parts of the State is one of the most 
disturbing aspects of the forest situation. While un- 
derstocking is common to all Southern States, it has 
reached rather alarming proportions in Virginia, 
where nearly half of the saw-timber area bears stands 
averaging less than 1,200 board feet per acre. 
Volume in Cords 
The total volume of sound wood and bark measured 
in cords, including all trees 5.0 inches d. b. h. and 
larger, was more than three times the volume in saw- 
logs alone—a total of 204.5 million cords (table 9). 
The 66.8 million cords of sawlog material includes the 
saw-timber volume previously discussed... The volume 
in upper stems of sawlog-size trees includes the large 
limbs of hardwoods to a minimum diameter of 4.0 
inches inside bark. That in cull trees is the sound 
material in the stems of cull softwoods and in the stems 
and limbs of cull hardwoods. The volume in under- 
sawlog-size trees is that in softwoods from 5.0 to 8.9 
inches d. b. h. and in hardwoods from 5.0 to 12.9 
inches d. b. h. 
species and class of material, 
7940 1 
Saw-timber trees Wades | 
ss Se 
Sawlogs ipper trees : oe 
Softwoods: M cords | M cords | M cords| M cords| M cords 
Loblolly pine_-_________ 17,317.1) 3,657.0} 7,322.8) 650.0) 28,946.9 
Shortleaf pine 2,208.8} 7,439.1 691.0} 18,111.8 
Virginia’ pine=—- 22 22-2_- 3% -4| 1,307.5} 6,069.3} 1,388.4} 12,735.6 
White-pine22- 22.2 - == i 207.2 304.9 133.4) 1,564.6 
Hemlock 109.4 105.8 87.9 873.2 
Redcedarss cscs ese O12 2 a ee 262.2 4.4 367.8 
White-cedar____-----__- ‘ 13-7 By Ae 170.1 
Gypress2= noses se ene : 146.7 100.2 84.8 812.7 
Motals2ess we a 31,282.8] 7,650.3|21,609.7| 3,039.9) 63,582.7 
| | 
Hardwoods: 
Redimaplesss2225cs reas 6 2,139.6) 2,671.9) 6,512.1 
Blackgum .8| 2,693.0] 2,483.7! 8,885.7 
Sweetgumese= eae a ee .6| 5,066.4) 1,163.0} 10,174.3 
Yellow-poplar__________ 5) 6,145.7} 1,279.0) 15,037.7 
Northern red oak -8| 1,825.9} 1,216.4) 7,276.8 
Other red oaks_________ .1) 9,187.2) 2,494.8) 19,086.5 
Wihitetoalksvs= se ier eas 25.1) 9,575.9) 2,428.2] 20,133.1 
Chestnut oak_-______- | 3 .4| 4,812.0) 5,180.8] 15,437.3 
1 Volumes shown represent State average for year. In Coastal Plain and 
southern Piedmont they are as of Jan. 1; in northern Piedmont and mountains 
they are as of Dec. 31. 
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